The Transcendent Function: Jung's Model of Psychological Growth Through Dialogue With the Unconscious

THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 6
FOREWORD......Page 10
PREFACE......Page 12
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 14
DEVELOPMENT OF THE EGO IN WESTERN CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 16
EMERGENCE OF DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY AND EMPHASIS ON THE UNCONSCIOUS......Page 17
PRIMER ON THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION......Page 18
SCOPE AND ORGANIZATION OF THE WORK......Page 21
1916: HISTORICAL CONTEXT FOR THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION......Page 24
THE 1916 AND 1958 PUBLISHED FORMS OF THE ESSAY......Page 26
The Prefatory Note......Page 27
Definitional Sections......Page 28
Compensatory Relationship of the Unconscious to Consciousness......Page 29
Omnipresence and Compensation of the Unconscious......Page 32
The Constructive Method: Importance of Purpose and Meaning......Page 33
The Role of the Analyst: Mediating the Transcendent Function......Page 34
Artificially Inducing Unconscious Contents......Page 36
Producing Unconscious Material: Active Imagination......Page 37
Utilizing Unconscious Material: Creative Formulation and Understanding......Page 39
Relation of Ego to Unconscious: Bringing Together the Opposites......Page 40
Final Result: Dialogue Creating Emergence of the Third......Page 41
Closing Passages: Liberation and the Courage to be Oneself......Page 44
SYNTHESIS: THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION AS REFLECTED IN THE ESSAY......Page 45
3. TRACING THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION THROUGH JUNG’S WORKS......Page 46
The Opposites: The Source and Development of Jung’s Thinking......Page 47
The Dynamic Opposition of Consciousness and the Unconscious......Page 52
The Role of Fantasy and Symbol......Page 57
Operation of the Transcendent Function......Page 62
Jung’s Ambiguity about the Nature of the Transcendent Function......Page 69
Individuation: Constructive View, Meaning and Transformation......Page 74
The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious......Page 78
Anima and Animus: Mediators between Consciousness and the Unconscious......Page 81
The Self as Progeny of the Transcendent Function......Page 85
Jung’s Inconsistencies Surrounding Dreams and the Divine......Page 87
The Shadow: Relationship to the Transcendent Function......Page 88
INTEGRATING THE REFERENCES TO THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION......Page 89
4. THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION AS THE CORE OF JUNG’S WORK......Page 92
THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION AS JUNG’S ROOT METAPHOR......Page 93
IMPLICATIONS OF THE EXPANSIVE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION BEYOND JUNG......Page 94
THE CORE OF THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION......Page 95
THE TRANSCENDENCE OF THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION......Page 97
5. THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION AND THE THEORIES OF OTHERS......Page 100
WINNICOTT: TRANSITIONAL OBJECTS AS MEDIATING ELEMENTS......Page 101
THE ANALYTIC FIELD: THE THIRD AS MEDIATING AGENT......Page 104
FREUD AND EGO PSYCHOLOGY: THE EGO AS A MEDIATING STRUCTURE......Page 106
OTHER DEPTH ANALOGIES: KOHUT, KLEIN, FORDHAM, AND HILLMAN......Page 108
NON-DEPTH ANALOGIES: GESTALT, CLIENT-CENTERED, AND COGNITIVE THERAPIES......Page 111
THE THIRD AS A UNIVERSAL PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSTRUCT......Page 112
THE BINARY OPPOSITION INHERENT IN CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 114
BRIDGING THE CHASM BETWEEN SUBJECT AND OBJECT......Page 116
LIMINALITY AND INITIATION: AN ARCHETYPAL BETWEEN-NESS......Page 119
HERMES: THE ARCHETYPAL MESSENGER BETWEEN REALMS......Page 123
THE THIRD: FOUNDATIONS OF THE NUMBER THREE......Page 124
RHYTHM OF CONSCIOUSNESS BETWEEN DIFFERENTIATION AND UNITY......Page 127
THE TRANSCENDENT: CONNECTION WITH A GREATER CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 130
THE NEITHER/NOR AND AUTOCHTHONOUS URGES OF THE PSYCHE......Page 132
7. VIVIFYING THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION IN EVERYDAY LIFE......Page 136
THE METAPHORICAL VIEW OF THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION......Page 137
TILLING THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION WITH THE ALCHEMICAL METAPHOR......Page 138
THE NEITHER/NOR AND THE METAPHORICAL THIRD......Page 139
THE GERMINATION OF THE ALCHEMICAL FOURTH......Page 141
PLOWING THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION FIELD IN RELATIONSHIPS......Page 143
SURVEYING THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES......Page 148
TRANSCENDENT FUNCTIONING IN THE GARDEN OF EVERYDAY LIFE......Page 151
CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 156
APPENDIX: A Textual Comparison of the 1916 Version to the 1958 Version of “THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION”......Page 158
APPENDIX B: REFERENCES TO THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION IN JUNG’S WORKS, LETTERS, AND SEMINARS......Page 194
APPENDIX C: REVIEW OF LITERATURE RELATING TO “THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION”......Page 198
JUNG AND JUNG’S WRITINGS......Page 200
BASIC REFERENCE MATERIALS......Page 201
ELEMENTS OF JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY......Page 203
ORIGINS OF THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION......Page 208
ROLE OF THE ANALYST......Page 209
CLINICAL ASPECTS AND APPLICATIONS......Page 211
CULTURAL, POLITICAL, AND SOCIETAL CONTEXTS......Page 212
RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL MATTERS......Page 213
CHAPTER TWO. DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION ESSAY......Page 214
CHAPTER THREE. TRACING THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION THROUGH JUNG’S WORKS......Page 215
CHAPTER FIVE. THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION AND THE THEORIES OF OTHERS......Page 217
CHAPTER SIX. THE DEEPER ROOTS OF THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION......Page 218
CHAPTER SEVEN. VIVIFYING THE TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION IN EVERYDAY LIFE......Page 219
REFERENCES......Page 222
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C......Page 235
E......Page 236
H......Page 237
M......Page 238
O......Page 239
R......Page 240
S......Page 241
T......Page 242
Z......Page 245